Milk allergy and bottles over the back fence: two single patient trials

OBJECTIVE: To determine if allergy to cows milk was responsible for symptoms in two children. DESIGN: Single patient trial. SETTING: General Practice in New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: Two children aged about 6 months INTERVENTION: Alternating bottles of soya-based milk and cow's milk provided by ne...

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Autores principales: Arroll, Bruce, Pert, Harry, Guyatt, Gordon
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2518132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18691397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-77
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description OBJECTIVE: To determine if allergy to cows milk was responsible for symptoms in two children. DESIGN: Single patient trial. SETTING: General Practice in New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: Two children aged about 6 months INTERVENTION: Alternating bottles of soya-based milk and cow's milk provided by neighbours over their back fence. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Presence of diarrhea, irritability, rash and wheeze. RESULTS: After 4 cycles of soya-based milk and cows milk one child proved to have a milk allergy and one did not. CONCLUSION: A systematic approach enabled conclusive diagnoses in both children.
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spelling pubmed-25181322008-08-20 Milk allergy and bottles over the back fence: two single patient trials Arroll, Bruce Pert, Harry Guyatt, Gordon Cases J Case Report OBJECTIVE: To determine if allergy to cows milk was responsible for symptoms in two children. DESIGN: Single patient trial. SETTING: General Practice in New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: Two children aged about 6 months INTERVENTION: Alternating bottles of soya-based milk and cow's milk provided by neighbours over their back fence. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Presence of diarrhea, irritability, rash and wheeze. RESULTS: After 4 cycles of soya-based milk and cows milk one child proved to have a milk allergy and one did not. CONCLUSION: A systematic approach enabled conclusive diagnoses in both children. BioMed Central 2008-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2518132/ /pubmed/18691397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-77 Text en Copyright © 2008 Arroll et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Arroll, Bruce
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Milk allergy and bottles over the back fence: two single patient trials
title Milk allergy and bottles over the back fence: two single patient trials
title_full Milk allergy and bottles over the back fence: two single patient trials
title_fullStr Milk allergy and bottles over the back fence: two single patient trials
title_full_unstemmed Milk allergy and bottles over the back fence: two single patient trials
title_short Milk allergy and bottles over the back fence: two single patient trials
title_sort milk allergy and bottles over the back fence: two single patient trials
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2518132/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18691397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-77
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